Anthropology of color
Subtitle: interdisciplinary multilevel modeling
By: edited by Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei, Don Dedrick.
Contributors: MacLaury, Robert E., 1944-; Paramei, Galina V.; Dedrick, Don.
Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9789027232434
Subjects: Color -- Terminology; Colors, Words for; Semiotics
Genres: Terminology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Color naming research in its many forms and guises / Don Dedrick and Galina V. Paramei; title: Hue categorization and color naming / Marc H. Bornstein; title: Individual and population differences in focal colors / Michael A. Webster and Paul Kay; title: Russian color names / Olga V. Safuanova and Nina N. Korzh; title: Russian 'blues' / Galina V. Paramei; title: Color term research of Hugo Magnus / Roger Schöntag and Barbara Schäfer-Priess; title: Categories of desaturated-complex color / Robert E. MacLaury; title: Relative basicness of color terms / Seija Kerttula; title: The ambiguity of brightness (with special reference to Old English) and a new model for color description in semantics / Carole P. Biggam; title: Color naming in Estonian and cognate languages / Vilja Oja; title: Color terms in ancient Egyptian and Coptic / Wolfgang Schenkel; title: Basic color term evolution in light of ancient evidence from the Near East / David A. Warburton; title: Basic color terms from proto-Semitic to old Ethiopic / Maria Bulakh; title: Towards a history and typology of color categorization in colloquial Arabic / Alexander Borg; title: Japanese color terms, from 400 CE to the present / James M. Stanlaw; title: Color terms in Colonia Tovar, an Almannisch enclave in Venezuela / Albert C. Heinrich; title: Mien (Yao) color terms / Theraphan Luangthongkum; title: The semiosis of Swedish car color names / Gunnar Bergh; title: Colors and emotions in English / Anders Steinvall; title: Linguistic construal of colors / Ekaterina V. Rakhilina; title: Color words in painting descriptions / Elena V. Anishchenko; title: Metaphors as cognitive models in Halkomelem color adjectives / Brent D. Galloway; title: Prototypical and stereotypical color in Slavic languages / Lyudmila Popovic; title: Relative basicness of color terms / Dessislava Stoeva-Holm; title: To have color and to have no color / Irena Vankova; title: Gender, age, and descriptive color terminology in some Caucasus cultures / Liudmila V. Samarina; title: Towards a new topology of colour / Barbara Saunders.